Sir Wilfrid Laurier
The greatest Prime Minister in Canadian history.
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Laurier at McGill LawCreated about a month ago
Wilfrid and meCreated on May 16, 2008 at 8:14pm

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Sir Wilfrid Laurier

Sir Wilfrid Laurier If Laurier were alive today, which party would he vote for? (See below.)

November 24, 2009 at 8:43am
Kieran Green
Kieran Green
Sir Laurier, being a consummate gentleman much interested in the substance of debate, would be absolutely disgusted with all parties in the House today, and with the abyssmal levels to which our national political debate has devolved. Even Sir John A., although he was a pretty vicious political pit-fighter himself, would be put off by today's antics.
November 24, 2009 at 8:59am
Sir Wilfrid Laurier

Sir Wilfrid Laurier Laurier fan Dan Man brings it to our attention that today is Sir Wilfrid Laurier's birthday. Happy Birthday! Laurier fan Dan Man nous rappelons que aujourd'ui c'est l'anniversaire de M. Laurier. Joyeux anniversaire!

November 20, 2009 at 12:49pm
Dan

Dan Happy birthday Sir Wilfrid!

You made Canada very proud!

Cheers to that ;)

November 20, 2009 at 8:41am · Report
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
From Laurier fan and McGill law student Malcolm Lavoie:

"I took these pictures for your Laurier collection. The first few are from the second floor of the McGill law building. They are pictures of the framed speaking notes from his valedictory address in 1864. The last three are of his portrait that hangs in the Faculty Room at the law school. Enjoy!"
November 19, 2009 at 8:17pm
Dan
Dan
Wonderful, thanks for sharing!
November 19, 2009 at 8:29pm
Grahame Booker

Grahame Booker Milke in TAX ME I'M CANADIAN [10] quotes Laurierin a campaign speech in 1894 as emphasizing freedom not only of speech and religion etc but also "freedom in commercial life." How very radical-we should recommend him for honorary membership at the Mises Institute.

November 9, 2009 at 8:24am · Report
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
See the Life and Letter of Sir Wilfrid Laurier for many such quotes. He supported _absolute_ liberty political and commercial.
November 11, 2009 at 9:02pm
Sir Wilfrid Laurier

Sir Wilfrid Laurier « La pense dominante de ma vie d’été d’harmoniser les différents éléments dont se compose notre pays. »

August 24, 2009 at 9:01pm
David Woolley

David Woolley Why can't today's Liberal Party follow the guidance of Laurier and his Liberal contemporaries?

February 19, 2009 at 8:08pm · Report
Sir Wilfrid Laurier

Sir Wilfrid Laurier Thank you for sharing Jean-Claude and thank you for passing on the Musée Laurier! We should all try and visit.

December 17, 2008 at 7:24am · Report
Jean-Claude

Jean-Claude I have been a fan of Sir Wilfrid Laurier since my youth. I was born and raised in Arthabaska ( now part of Victoriaville ) Quebec where he started in politics and where you can still visit his home which is now the Musée Laurier ( www.museelaurier.com ). I had the pleasure to have diner in the museum's gardens three ye...ars ago with the members of my choir when we gave a concert in he beautiful église Saint-Christophe d'Arthabaska which he attended when he lived there.

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Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Two discussions of Wilfrid Laurier in the National Post. An op-ed by former prime minister Chretien. http://www.nationalpost.com/related/topics/story.html?id=974463
Arthur Keen

Arthur Keen This may obviously be a case of of borrowed memories, but my grandmother a diehard Conservative who came to Canada in 1912,
told me she met Sir Wilfrid Laurier when he was campaigning in Alberta.

I asked her; What did you think of him?
She summed up Sir Wilfrid Laurier in one word " BEAUTIFUL"

An eloquent speaker with a h...int of french accent, elegant dresser,
who was accused of selling out to English Canada.

I always believed if reincarnation exists, Laurier came back as Pierre Trudea, considering one left the world and the other entered the same
month and year, a few days before Trudeau birth.

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Sir Wilfrid Laurier

Sir Wilfrid Laurier Some photographs of myself and the Wilfrid Laurier statue at Dorchester Square in Montréal.

I challenge all Canadian friends of liberty to follow my lead and be photographed with the statue.

Thank you to Cassandre for finding it with me and taking the photos.

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Gölök Zoltán Buday

Gölök Zoltán Buday I prefer Dief, but he's not bad. No one else since the Cheif has been worth mentioning without colonial emberresment. Colony is emberresment enough, although now where a US Protectorate/Eng. Colony Hybrid.

March 28, 2008 at 12:32pm · Report
Joseph Angolano

Joseph Angolano sort of thing.

4) You can deny the evidence about second-hand smoke, you're not going to get anywhere with me. If you deny the evidence, then do you think that sitting in an unventilated room with 50 smokers is something you would do?

5) In 2005-6, there were 766 homicides in all of Great Britain. Only 50 of them were c...ommitted by by handguns. Also the homicide rate is 2.4 per 100,000 in London. It is three times that much in the US. The gun legislation in the US and the GB are like night and day.

6) I too believe in limited (as opposed to unlimited) gov't and private property rights (although I tend to understand them in a Hegelian way). And I am no libertarian. I get your point though. Mill himself though did turn away from libertarianism and a nightwatchman state when he wrote Utilitarianism.

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